So in our great national discourse on the problems of foreign policy the only question that got asked in last night's debate was about the embassy attacks. Mitt Romney's main complaint, it seemed, was that President Obama didn't use the word terrorism soon enough after the attack. But you know who else didn't describe it as an act of terror? Yep, Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney, who in all his wisdom, decided to hold a news conference before the President's Rose Garden statement never used the word terror or terrorism himself.
Reading the transcript, in fact, it seems like Mitt Romney's complaint only makes sense if he considered the attack in Libya a spontaneous uprising because of the film trailer, since his main criticism is that President Obama wasn't standing up for American values, by "apologizing" for the video. His narrative only makes sense if the attack on the Embassy was actually not an act of terror but a spontaneous demonstration, and even then it does not make much sense.